Author: William Churchill
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A Princess of Fiji
Author: William Churchill
Publisher:
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Jack London's Racial Lives
Author: Jeanne Campbell Reesman
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820339709
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Jack London (1876-1916), known for his naturalistic and mythic tales, remains among the most popular and influential American writers in the world. Jack London's Racial Lives offers the first full study of the enormously important issue of race in London's life and diverse works, whether set in the Klondike, Hawaii, or the South Seas or during the Russo-Japanese War, the Jack Johnson world heavyweight bouts, or the Mexican Revolution. Jeanne Campbell Reesman explores his choices of genre by analyzing racial content and purpose and judges his literary artistry against a standard of racial tolerance. Although he promoted white superiority in novels and nonfiction, London sharply satirized racism and meaningfully portrayed racial others--most often as protagonists--in his short fiction. Why the disparity? For London, racial and class identity were intertwined: his formation as an artist began with the mixed "heritage" of his family. His mother taught him racism, but he learned something different from his African American foster mother, Virginia Prentiss. Childhood poverty, shifting racial allegiances, and a "psychology of want" helped construct the many "houses" of race and identity he imagined. Reesman also examines London's socialism, his study of Darwin and Jung, and the illnesses he suffered in the South Seas. With new readings of The Call of the Wild, Martin Eden, and many other works, such as the explosive Pacific stories, Reesman reveals that London employed many of the same literary tropes of race used by African American writers of his period: the slave narrative, double-consciousness, the tragic mulatto, and ethnic diaspora. Hawaii seemed to inspire his most memorable visions of a common humanity.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820339709
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Jack London (1876-1916), known for his naturalistic and mythic tales, remains among the most popular and influential American writers in the world. Jack London's Racial Lives offers the first full study of the enormously important issue of race in London's life and diverse works, whether set in the Klondike, Hawaii, or the South Seas or during the Russo-Japanese War, the Jack Johnson world heavyweight bouts, or the Mexican Revolution. Jeanne Campbell Reesman explores his choices of genre by analyzing racial content and purpose and judges his literary artistry against a standard of racial tolerance. Although he promoted white superiority in novels and nonfiction, London sharply satirized racism and meaningfully portrayed racial others--most often as protagonists--in his short fiction. Why the disparity? For London, racial and class identity were intertwined: his formation as an artist began with the mixed "heritage" of his family. His mother taught him racism, but he learned something different from his African American foster mother, Virginia Prentiss. Childhood poverty, shifting racial allegiances, and a "psychology of want" helped construct the many "houses" of race and identity he imagined. Reesman also examines London's socialism, his study of Darwin and Jung, and the illnesses he suffered in the South Seas. With new readings of The Call of the Wild, Martin Eden, and many other works, such as the explosive Pacific stories, Reesman reveals that London employed many of the same literary tropes of race used by African American writers of his period: the slave narrative, double-consciousness, the tragic mulatto, and ethnic diaspora. Hawaii seemed to inspire his most memorable visions of a common humanity.
Alyssa McCarthy’s Magical Missions:
Author: Sunayna Prasad
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460207017
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Twelve-year-old Alyssa McCarthy is sick of her uncle's unfair rules and longs for a better life. After discovering the existence of magic, she finds out about a dark wizard hunting her down. An unforgettable storm occurs in Alyssa's ordinary New Jersey town before the sorcerer kidnaps her to the Fiji Islands. On the enchanted island of Yanowic, Alyssa learns that she is unable to get out of the country due to a giant shield. She must defeat some dangerous creatures and the evil wizard in order to leave. But with sorcerers and magical technology getting in her way, can Alyssa succeed?...
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460207017
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Twelve-year-old Alyssa McCarthy is sick of her uncle's unfair rules and longs for a better life. After discovering the existence of magic, she finds out about a dark wizard hunting her down. An unforgettable storm occurs in Alyssa's ordinary New Jersey town before the sorcerer kidnaps her to the Fiji Islands. On the enchanted island of Yanowic, Alyssa learns that she is unable to get out of the country due to a giant shield. She must defeat some dangerous creatures and the evil wizard in order to leave. But with sorcerers and magical technology getting in her way, can Alyssa succeed?...
The Timberman
Author:
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Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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Merseyside Tales
Author: Ken Pye
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750964456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
This fantastic collection of true tales celebrates the strange and curious secrets of Merseyside’s history. The fifty stories inside – from the lion in the wheelbarrow on the tightrope to the twelve young women ‘smothered by the incurable malady they caught of some sailors’, the true tale of the ‘man in the iron coffin’ and the strange and mysterious disappearance of the Everest mountaineers from Birkenhead – uncover some truly amazing and extraordinary facets of the area’s history and heritage.Richly illustrated and compiled by Liverpool’s own historian Ken Pye, this book will delight residents and visitors alike.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750964456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
This fantastic collection of true tales celebrates the strange and curious secrets of Merseyside’s history. The fifty stories inside – from the lion in the wheelbarrow on the tightrope to the twelve young women ‘smothered by the incurable malady they caught of some sailors’, the true tale of the ‘man in the iron coffin’ and the strange and mysterious disappearance of the Everest mountaineers from Birkenhead – uncover some truly amazing and extraordinary facets of the area’s history and heritage.Richly illustrated and compiled by Liverpool’s own historian Ken Pye, this book will delight residents and visitors alike.
The Ponk and Other Perpetrations
Author: H. Holmes Tarn
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Industrial & Mining Standard
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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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A Track to Unknown Water
Author: Stella Lees
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810820067
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Centers on the particular contribution minority groups make to children's literature.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810820067
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Centers on the particular contribution minority groups make to children's literature.
Jottings During the Cruise of H. M. S. Curac̜oa Among the South Seaislands in 1865
Author: Julius Lucius Brenchley
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, and Company
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, and Company
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Judy, Or the London Serio-comic Journal
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Category : Caricature
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caricature
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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